MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the scheduled execution of (all times local): 12:45 p.m. An Alabama inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his upcoming execution. Attorneys for Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. on Thursday asked justices to stay the execution to review whether Moody’s federal sentence of multiple life terms can be interrupted for Alabama to…
A federal appeals court has rejected a death row inmate’s argument that he must serve out his federal sentence before Alabama can put him to death for the 1989 killing of a federal judge. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that Walter Leroy Moody does not have a right to demand that he serve his federal…
U.S. District Judge Robert Vance, Sr. Killed by a package bomb in 1989. Judge Robert Vance, Jr. tells Alabama News Network he “doesn’t know how to answer” the question of whether or not he has forgiven the man who murdered his father with a mail bomb just before Christmas in 1989. He says he did felt closure in regard to…
